As I continue in my series of videos from DevOps days NYC a few months ago, here is an interview with Jonathan Reams of MongoDB. Johnathan is systems engineer on Mongo’s DevOps team and is helping to make MongoDB, the NoSQL non-relational database, more appealing to operations. Some of the ground Jonathan covers: Mongo’s huMONGOus…
Back in September I posted an entry about the Modular Data Center that we set up in the Dell parking lot. Here is a time lapse video showing the MDC and the location being built out. The MDC allows customers to test solutions at scale. It is running OpenStack and various Big Data goodies such…
This is the 26th year of the SXSW (South by Southwest), the annual music, film, and interactive conference. Everybody whose anybody, and even a few who aren’t, are here. Yesterday the 10-day event kicked off. As a company, Dell is a big participant and sponsor from panels, to music lounges, to an entrepreneur’s UnConference, to…
I’m getting near the end of the interviews that I did while at Hadoop World earlier this month, just one more after this (with Splunk’s CTO and co-founder). Today’s entry features a talk I had with Nosh Petigara, director of product strategy at 10gen, the company behind MongoDB. Some of the ground that Nosh covers Who…
I saw a great talk today here at OSCON Data up in Portland, Oregon. The talk was Practical Data Storage: MongoDB @ foursquare and was given by foursquare‘s head of server engineering, Harry Heymann. The talk was particularly impressive since, due to AV issues, Harry had to wing it and go slideless. (He did post…